Early ants may have had complex social lives, fossil data suggests
Ants have used specialized antenna bristles to communicate for 100 million years
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Fossilized Gerontoformica gracilis ants (one shown) have sensory equipment on their antennae that suggest the insects could identify and share chemical signals with their nestmates.
Ryo Taniguchi